{"id":14783,"date":"2012-05-24T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14783"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:39:42","slug":"obama-touts-3b-in-pledges-to-help-feed-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14783","title":{"rendered":"Obama Touts $3B In Pledges To Help Feed Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> on Friday said the United States has a &#8220;moral imperative&#8221; to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> announced $3 billion in private sector pledges to help boost agriculture and food production in Africa. He said the U.S. and other donor nations would continue to make &#8220;historic investments&#8221; in development, though he offered no new American government pledges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a &#8220;moral imperative&#8221; to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world. Pres. Obama announced $3 billion in private sector pledges to help boost agriculture and food production in Africa. He said the U.S. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}